The work they were doing was mostly RNA. These were undergraduates learning lab work. They risked phenol, chloroform, beta mercaptoethanol and guanidinium solutions splashing on them. I never let those ones near any of the pharmaceuticals dissolved in DMSO.

Aargh! Peeve alarm! One woman who worked in our lab wore her lab coat with top unbottoned over her tank top like that picture (although the picture on the book cover looks better). There are woman like that in labs. They where tank tops and short shorts and sandals and are always looking for excuses to not wear their…

If he solicited a financial bribe to hook her up, it would be wrong, too. If she offered sex or a financial bribe to get a gig, it would be wrong. Even looking past the coercive nature of soliciting sex or other forms of bribes to get high profile work, it undermines any field to allow bribes. When a bribe becomes a de…

"no one argued that mens' lustfulness was a sign of a fundamental irrationality that should preclude them from business and politics"

According to Nolo.com, this sort of case is usually plead down to reckless driving for a first offense in Florida provided nobody was injured.

"I clearly overestimated your common sense"

"they think piling on is normal- this is just how humans behave"

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"discuss the radically decreasing popularity of religion among America's young people"

I am curious and don't want unsupported generalizations. Assuming he is convicted on all charges in Canada, what kind of sentence would he face? If he receives a typical plea deal, what kind of sentence would he face?

"Do you mean to suggest that that's not necessarily the case? "

The part of the Constitution that says you have the right to be confronted by witnesses against you.

No, the conclusions reached by this article are reaching. The conclusions reached by this study are what they say they are. This is not to say the article is poorly written. It would take maybe 60 or 70 dense paragraphs to explain the background of cognitive science to explain the study's conclusions properly. The…

"Do you think that StarCraft 2 mental data fits to all types of learning"

Hi fellow neurosciences person. I would like to add to your post for the popular audience.

"I'd like to know what tests they used to measure cognitive ability"

"BTW our tax dollars were spent to fly Kerman and other from one prison to another just so she could testify that she didn't know the drug lord"

"it still shows that women regard their sexuality as fluid"

Of course what happened to her is wrong. Everything about it is wrong. However, it is not pedophilia. fiestycowgirl's post is definitely polemic.

People will throw out bad sounding words like "racism," "homophobia," "misogyny" and "pedophilia" inappropriately which sort of lessens the impact when these are actually encountered. However, my main objection is that these terms are used a polemics to prevent intelligent conversation. I have heard the word…